Commit 79685b8d authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Jens Axboe
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docbook: add pipes, other fixes 



Fix some typos in pipe.c and splice.c.
Add pipes API to kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
parent 7c2ff389

Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl

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  <chapter id="splice">

      <title>splice API</title>

  <para>)

  <para>

	splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the

	kernel, without continually transferring it between the kernel

	kernel, without continually transferring them between the kernel

	and user space.

  </para>

!Iinclude/linux/splice.h

!Ffs/splice.c

  </chapter>



  <chapter id="pipes">

      <title>pipes API</title>

  <para>

	Pipe interfaces are all for in-kernel (builtin image) use.

	They are not exported for use by modules.

  </para>

!Iinclude/linux/pipe_fs_i.h

!Ffs/pipe.c

  </chapter>



</book>

fs/pipe.c

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/**

 * generic_pipe_buf_confirm - verify contents of the pipe buffer

 * @pipe:	the pipe that the buffer belongs to

 * @info:	the pipe that the buffer belongs to

 * @buf:	the buffer to confirm

 *

 * Description:

fs/splice.c

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@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static const struct pipe_buf_operations user_page_pipe_buf_ops = { 
 * @spd:	data to fill

 *

 * Description:

 *    @spd contains a map of pages and len/offset tupples, a long with

 *    @spd contains a map of pages and len/offset tuples, along with

 *    the struct pipe_buf_operations associated with these pages. This

 *    function will link that data to the pipe.

 *